Yoshiaki Hatta

Yoshiaki Hatta (14 September 1879-26 April 1964) was the Armament Minister of Japan shortly before World War II and an entrepreneur.

Biography
Yoshiaki Hatta was born on 14 September 1879 in Tokyo, Japan, and he gained a degree in civil engineering from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was initially a railroad businessman, and in 1932 he became Vice-President of the South Manchurian Railway Company. After the 1931-32 Mukden Incident, Hatta stepped up cooperation with the Imperial Japanese Army's Kwantung Army unit in China, and he became the Armament Minister in Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe's government by 1938. Hatta was dismissed from office at the end of World War II in September 1945, and he became President of Takushoku University. Hatta died in 1964 at the age of 84.